Speaking on Entertainment Weekly's InsideTV podcast, Fleiss described it as "the craziest episode in a long time".

"I know I always say it's the craziest episode ever and I'm tempted to say that, but I know it's one of the craziest things that we've seen in at least a few years," he said.

Fleiss joked that host Chris Harrison has to "channel Maury Povich" and added: "It's wild. It's the most volatile, screaming, near-violent confrontation we've ever had on the show. I mean, it was scary. I was scared personally.

"It really changes sort of the dynamic in the house and it changes the experience for Desiree moving forward, because it involves a guy that she really cared about."

Fleiss added that the event "impacts her this whole season" and described the journey as a "wild rollercoaster of events" with "so many weird, jagged turns".

He also described the men this season as "really emotional" and promised that viewers will be surprised by how things turn out.

"All I can say is you will be shocked by how this ends," he said. "It doesn't make sense in some ways. It comes out of left field in other ways. It's just the weirdest ending we've ever had, that's for sure."